Scores by reasoning setting

Medium (Balanced group, tested and included)59.1
Low (Baseline group, tested and included)19.6

Every tested setting is included in the overall score.

Available settings and grouping

Available settings

LowMediumHigh

Checked on 2026-10-09 · Provider documentation

How settings are grouped

Baseline: Low — tested and included
Balanced: Medium — tested and included
Intensive: High — available, not tested in the current results

Scores by game

Per-game scores are not available for this result.

What this result shows

Strongest included setting: Medium (59.1).

Per-game evidence is unavailable.

Match evidence measures these retained programs. It does not establish how a fresh generation will perform. Independent-generation variation is not estimated in this release.

Test protocol and evidence limits

Model identifier: stepfun/step-5-preview
Provider route (catalog): openrouter
Prompt identity / profile: Not retained in this result set / Not retained in this result set
Prompt version: Not retained in this result set
Generation policy: Generation-quality admission policy (see methodology)
Requested output-token limits: 64000 (5 of 5 indexed attempts)

Generation evidence

Low: 1 contributing player programs across 1 games
Medium: 1 contributing player programs across 1 games

Counts describe contributing programs, not independent replications: repairs and resends are not new independent samples. Independent-generation lineage is not retained; the per-game counts below keep unique code identities separate from admitted generation runs.

Game	Setting	Unique programs	Admitted generation runs	Program score range
Tumbleweed	low	1	1	19.6–19.6
Tumbleweed	medium	1	1	59.1–59.1

Program ranges describe the retained competitors on this release scale, not a statistical estimate of a fresh generation.

Failures and budgets

0 model-code generation failures; 0 provider/infrastructure failures excluded from the generation denominator. Runtime player faults are separate: 0 recorded unilateral faults across contributing program rows, excluded from rating evidence.

Repair/resend outcomes and available costs are included. Exact retry ceilings and execution budgets are not retained in this result set; see the methodology for the public policy. Do not infer a measured setting from a current provider catalog.

Player program results

Medium: 100% / 0% / 0% · n 1Low: 100% / 0% / 0% · n 1 No Overall rankMissing Intensive

Generation cost

$0.19average estimated cost per game and reasoning setting

Median: $0.18
Range: $0.18–$0.19
Provider-reported total: $0.56
Cost data: 3 combinations · 3 runs
Price source: Provider-reported
Price list: boardgame-list-prices-2026-10-09
Average output: 62k tokens
Output range: 60k–64k tokens
Runs with output-token data: 3

How cost is measured

Comparison cost gives equal weight to each model, game, and reasoning-setting combination. Recorded generation attempts include repairs and resends when cost evidence is available; runtime compute and service operation are excluded. Cost and output-token counts use separate telemetry denominators. A list-price estimate is not actual expenditure; mixed evidence is not a uniform standard-price comparison.

Test protocol

Combines this model's tested reasoning settings
Player-program generation; retained protocol details are under “Test protocol and evidence limits” above

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